Conflict with Emacspeak?

Danny Crone dannyboy at pobox.com
Mon Sep 15 12:34:49 EDT 2003


If Emacs can be used with speakup, what would be the advantage of using 
Emaccspeak?

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Hi.  If you're trying to get emacspeak to use the same synth as speakup,
> you will need to boot using a kernel without speakup for emacspeak to use it.
> The print screen key doesn't unload speakup, it just stops it from doing
> anything on the current console.  Since speakup got the synth when the
> system booted, no other screen reader can use it.  Speakup does have a
> way to let other programs talk to the synth, but the other programs will
> have to be written to use it.
> 
>           Kenny
> 	  
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:05:18PM +0100, Léonie Watson wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> >     I'm still suffering the conflict between Speakup and Emacspeak on my
> > Debian (testing) distro.
> > 
> >     I've tried using the printscr key to unload Speakup before entering
> > Emacspeak, but Speakup doesn't unload.
> > 
> >     I'm using a Dectalk Express, should this make any difference and at this
> > time, really don't know enough to figure out much for myself.
> > 
> >     Apologies to those on the Emacspeak list, where I am also pursuing this
> > enquiry, for the dual post.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tink
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> > 
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